[1] The Landsberg faction assembled members of the right liberal, especially from the southwest, Rhine middle and the north German professors.
[7][4] Members of the Casino and their publications had played major roles in preparing for and organizing the meeting of the parliament,[8] for example in publicity in the Deutsche Zeitung, a liberal newspaper that came to be the organ of the faction,[9][10] and participation in the Heppenheim Meeting, the Heidelberg Assembly, and the Vorparlament, the preliminary assembly that met in the Paulskirche from March 31 to April 3, 1848.
The majority of the Casino members joined with the Westendhall faction to form the coalition of Erbkaiserliche (hereditary imperialists) that met in the concert hall of the Gasthof zum Weidenbusch and pushed through the specification of constitutional monarchy as the preferred political form of the sought-after national state.
[13][14] In September 1848, the Landsberg faction split off from Casino;[15] its members advocated a more prominent role for the national assembly.
[16] Following the resignation of the Austrian deputy Anton von Schmerling on December 21, 1848, the Casino members who preferred a "Greater Germany" including Austria likewise split off under the leadership of Karl Jürgens and formed the more conservative Pariser Hof.